Literary Review

This article is about the British literary magazine. For the American literary magazine, see The Literary Review.
Literary Review
EditorNancy Sladek
Frequency11 per year
Circulation44,750 (as of 2006[?])[1][self-published source]
Founded1979; 45 years ago (1979)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
Websiteliteraryreview.co.uk
ISSN0144-4360

Literary Review is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho.[1] The magazine was edited for fourteen years by veteran journalist Auberon Waugh. The current editor is Nancy Sladek.

The magazine reviews a wide range of published books, including fiction, history, politics, biography and travel, and additionally prints new fiction. It is also known for the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award that it has run since 1993.

  1. ^ a b "Literary Review media kit (PDF)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2008.